Compatibility certification for Broadcom for z14 processor

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware

Issue/Introduction

 

New mainframe announced - z14 - IBM Z - z/VSE support Today (July 17, 2017) IBM announced a new mainframe - IBM z14.  z14 is planned to be available on September 13, 2017. z14 is z/Architecture only.   Up to z13, IPL was done in ESA/390 mode. The operating system decided  to switch in z/Architecture mode or stay with ESA/390. Since z/VSE V4 z/VSE switches into z/Architecture mode early during the IPL process. With z14,  IPL is performed in z/Architecture mode only. No switch to ESA/390 mode is possible.

Have the Broadcom VSE products been certified on this processor? 

Environment

VSE 5.2
VSE 6.1
VSE 6.2

Resolution

All the Broadcom VSE products were certified on a IBM z14 processor and there were no required APARs or PTFs created for compatibility.